Best Value Survival Games
The Survival games that stretch a budget furthest: median reviewer playtime divided by current price. Pick your currency in the top bar to rank against your local prices.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Crosshair X$0.03/1hr296h91.92%93.37%
- 2FTL: Faster Than Light$0.04/1hr46h93.99%95.09%
- 3Rust$0.05/1hr392h86.72%86.73%
- 4Terraria$0.07/1hr152h97.30%97.38%
- 5Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc$0.07/1hr29h93.79%95.97%
- 6Deep Rock Galactic$0.07/1hr129h96.81%97.11%
- 7Space Engineers$0.07/1hr142h88.57%88.81%
- 8Brotato$0.07/1hr42h95.11%95.93%
- 9Dead by Daylight$0.07/1hr274h78.38%78.31%
- 10RimWorld$0.08/1hr369h97.36%97.85%
- 11theHunter: Call of the Wild$0.09/1hr34h88.91%89.08%
- 12Fallout 4$0.09/1hr211h81.27%81.17%
- 13SCUM$0.10/1hr459h74.89%74.07%
- 14Town of Salem$0.11/1hr44h87.32%87.87%
- 15Oxygen Not Included$0.12/1hr212h95.98%96.72%
- 167 Days to Die$0.12/1hr372h86.98%87.02%
- 17Myth of Empires$0.12/1hr248h74.04%67.57%
- 18Left 4 Dead 2$0.12/1hr82h97.41%97.52%
- 19ICARUS$0.12/1hr72h76.03%74.67%
- 20R.E.P.O.$0.12/1hr53h95.76%96.00%
- 21Dying Light$0.12/1hr40h95.03%95.23%
- 22Green Hell$0.13/1hr19h84.67%84.61%
- 23Wartales$0.13/1hr73h85.54%85.60%
- 24Project Zomboid$0.14/1hr182h93.60%93.77%
- 25ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr108h83.36%83.33%
- 26Subsistence$0.14/1hr99h77.65%72.08%
- 27Mortal Online 2$0.15/1hr271h70.62%59.91%
- 28Fallout: New Vegas$0.15/1hr67h95.59%95.98%
- 29Portal Knights$0.15/1hr20h84.00%83.37%
- 30Generation Zero$0.15/1hr33h74.58%72.03%
- 31Eco$0.15/1hr195h82.64%80.67%
- 32Dungeon Defenders$0.16/1hr95h90.44%93.09%
- 33Army of Ruin$0.16/1hr25h85.99%88.05%
- 34Survival: Fountain of Youth$0.16/1hr62h84.98%85.44%
- 35Bloons TD 6$0.16/1hr87h96.89%97.18%
- 3620 Minutes Till Dawn$0.16/1hr15h89.04%90.31%
- 37Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.17/1hr116h79.96%78.39%
- 38Mindustry$0.18/1hr56h92.99%95.72%
- 39God Of Weapons$0.18/1hr33h84.94%84.03%
- 40Valheim$0.18/1hr165h93.74%93.89%
- 41Starbound$0.18/1hr82h89.59%89.94%
- 42Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense$0.18/1hr136h85.90%86.27%
- 43Resident Evil 4 (2005)$0.19/1hr27h93.37%94.18%
- 44Blood and Bacon$0.20/1hr5h93.14%95.27%
- 45Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition$0.20/1hr25h96.95%97.70%
- 46Factorio$0.20/1hr171h97.02%97.51%
- 47Among Us$0.21/1hr24h91.93%92.02%
- 48Don't Starve Together$0.21/1hr73h94.74%94.91%
- 49Frostpunk$0.21/1hr29h92.24%92.74%
- 50Resident Evil 6$0.21/1hr23h78.18%77.18%
- 51The Planet Crafter$0.21/1hr56h94.76%96.03%
- 52ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN$0.22/1hr184h81.89%81.71%
- 53Settlement Survival$0.22/1hr24h85.20%85.04%
- 54No Man's Sky$0.22/1hr107h85.19%85.19%
- 55Soulmask$0.22/1hr87h79.60%77.04%
- 56ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game$0.23/1hr64h84.77%84.76%
- 57Stormworks: Build and Rescue$0.24/1hr105h89.76%90.50%
- 58Palworld$0.24/1hr124h94.38%94.57%
- 59The Isle$0.25/1hr82h80.57%80.17%
- 60Card Survival: Tropical Island$0.25/1hr101h87.17%94.99%
- 61Timberborn$0.25/1hr99h93.91%95.97%
- 62Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander$0.25/1hr81h90.38%94.30%
- 63Ostranauts$0.25/1hr80h83.35%77.27%
- 64Satisfactory$0.25/1hr160h96.85%97.27%
- 65Per Aspera$0.26/1hr29h81.88%75.91%
- 66Necesse$0.26/1hr58h90.82%92.70%
- 67Resident Evil$0.26/1hr19h90.70%92.32%
- 68Deadside$0.26/1hr96h77.46%75.52%
- 69Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.27/1hr45h85.73%86.61%
- 70Captain of Industry$0.27/1hr92h88.03%90.29%
- 71Scrap Mechanic$0.27/1hr108h91.32%91.81%
- 72MORDHAU$0.27/1hr22h80.34%79.90%
- 73This War of Mine$0.27/1hr19h93.04%93.83%
- 74Mind Over Magic$0.27/1hr93h85.72%86.58%
- 75Rain World$0.27/1hr32h92.46%93.70%
- 76ANEURISM IV$0.27/1hr36h81.48%75.33%
- 77Picayune Dreams$0.27/1hr18h89.67%98.88%
- 78Mist Survival$0.28/1hr30h79.65%75.70%
- 79The Binding of Isaac$0.28/1hr18h93.34%94.62%
- 80Stoneshard$0.28/1hr89h77.02%74.69%
- 81Welcome to ParadiZe$0.28/1hr11h82.72%67.24%
- 82Planetbase$0.29/1hr53h82.52%79.75%
- 83Kenshi$0.29/1hr104h94.78%95.59%
- 84The Long Dark$0.29/1hr69h88.63%88.90%
- 85Resident Evil 5$0.29/1hr17h86.77%86.98%
- 86Total War: ATTILA$0.30/1hr67h83.05%82.44%
- 87ASKA$0.30/1hr66h82.37%79.94%
- 88They Are Billions$0.30/1hr98h85.16%85.13%
- 89From the Depths$0.31/1hr82h87.57%89.26%
- 90Ratopia$0.31/1hr72h86.13%87.75%
- 91Tom Clancy’s The Division 2$0.31/1hr98h80.16%78.71%
- 92The Last Stand: Aftermath$0.31/1hr23h83.44%80.52%
- 93Fallout 76$0.31/1hr128h72.80%71.91%
- 94I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.31/1hr26h85.05%84.45%
- 95Barotrauma$0.32/1hr55h93.14%94.01%
- 96Resident Evil 0$0.33/1hr15h81.67%80.09%
- 97Resident Evil 4$0.33/1hr30h96.94%97.35%
- 98Dead Space 2$0.33/1hr12h91.80%93.97%
- 99DayZ$0.33/1hr150h78.02%77.86%
- 100Conan Exiles Enhanced$0.33/1hr120h79.54%79.05%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.